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By Saul landau “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country,” was a statement attributed to former GM CEO Charles Wilson in 1953, during hearings before the Senate Armed…
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By Robert C. Koehler "Barack Obama was NEVER a progressive or anything other than a closet Republican. This was true in '08 and continues to be true. He successfully hoodwinked…
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From the U.S. Policy & Business Blog Happy New Year to All - Late Breaking - Reliable sources to our blog advise an announcement on Cuba travel is imminent. Over the last thirty…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog More than thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan came to Washington intent on reducing taxes on the wealthy and shrinking every aspect of…
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By Michael Moore (Editor’s Note: Our Havana correspondent verified that Michael Moore’s movie, SiCKO, was played in Cuban theaters and on television.) Yesterday WikiLeaks did an…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up 
like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten…
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By Saul Landau Viscerally, only those who get paid off or have no sensibilities don’t sense the climate change phenomenon. I look out at San Francisco Bay after a night’s rain and see…
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By Bill Press Have you heard? President Obama's historic health care reform plan is dead. Killed with one shot by a federal district court judge in Virginia. That's the news…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., praises the President’s agreement with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts. “If…
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Bill now awaits action by the House By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray From The Washington Post A sweeping tax package negotiated by the White House and Republican leaders sailed…
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